How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images
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How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images
By (Author) Sara Blair
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
22nd September 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literature: history and criticism
974.7
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Paperback
304
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where
Reviews
"Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association"
"Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modern Studies Association"
Author Bio
Sara Blair is the Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor of English and a faculty associate in the Department of American Culture and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her books include Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton) and, with Eric Rosenberg, Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA.
